Hillary Clinton at the DNC Round-Up

[Photo courtesy of Barack Obama’s Flickr page. No, really.]

Two words: Harriet. Tubman.

Hillary Clinton gave what is, in my estimation, the best speech of her career (text and video).

Ta-Nehisi says it was magnanimous, and that he was sorry when she finished because he wanted to hear more. Ezra calls the speech “effective,” and adds: “It was a speech about being a Democrat, and what electing a Democrat will mean for the country.” Dahlia Lithwick thinks that while Hillary “lit up the crowd,” she didn’t sell Obama, but that’s his job, not hers. Greg Sargent at TPM says her speech sets the stage for an even more powerful speech by Obama on Thursday.

Publius writes that Clinton was calling on “her supporters’ better angels” with the line in her speech asking if they were in it for her, or for the issues. Josh Marshall thinks “pre-2008 Hillary Clinton would not have been capable of that speech” and that Hillary grew over the course of the campaign.

Andrew Sullivan dissents, saying “She did what she had to do, tell her voters to back Obama. But she gave nothing more.”

And me? Well, even if she wasn’t being genuine, she sounded like she meant every word of it. Hillary knows what she has to do to maintain her leverage in the party, and she’s doing it. I can’t take issue with that.

Of course, her speech did nothing to prevent the media from continuing their current favorite narrative: dissent in the Democratic Party!

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  • ladyfresshh

    It worked for me.